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Friday, October 20, 2017

BARU BIAN: BUILDING A HOSPITAL IN BANGLADESH A RUDE SLAP IN OUR FACES

PRESS STATEMENT

17 OCTOBER 2017

The DPM’s announcement that the government will build a hospital in
Bangladesh for RM3.5mil, and to be completed within a month’s time is a bitter
pill for folks in Sarawak to swallow, especially those in the rural areas.

Why does this UMNO/BN government persist in sending our money
overseas when the people are still crying out for basic facilities in Sarawak?
First the PM went to America and pledged to help Donald Trump strengthen the
American economy by buying aeroplanes and investing our EPF funds there. Then
the DPM went to Bangladesh and promised to build a hospital. Do they not know
that there is urgent need for funds in Sarawak?

There are 1,454 schools in
Sarawak, of which 1,020 are dilapidated and 415 in critical condition. The
teachers, parents and students are crying out for better facilities. We need
better roads in the rural areas, but according to the ministers, the federal government
does not have the funds to pay for them. We need more rural clinics with
trained staff, and more hospitals to serve the people, but there doesn’t seem
to be any urgency on the part of the federal government to provide for us. Our
hospitals do not even have enough funds to stock up on adequate medicines for
patients’ prescriptions but the DPM is quite happy to dish out RM3.5mil to
build a hospital in Bangladesh?

Sarawakians are beginning to wake up to the sad reality that
we have been short-changed for 54 years, still being one of the poorest and
least developed ‘states’, constantly having to ask the federal government for
funds for our development. We are aware that the UMNO leaders come to Sarawak
making many promises especially near election time, but conveniently forgotten
once the election is over.

There is a saying, ‘Charity begins at home’, but we are not
even saying that now – we just want what should be our rightful share of the
funds and resources first. The actions of the PM and DPM clearly show that the
UMNO/BN government is more concerned about building up their badly tarnished
image than in providing for the people of this country.

What more reason to make sure there is a change of
government at the upcoming elections?

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